Yahoo! Says the Future Will be Modeled on Facebook — Saul Hansell at the New York Times gets some people talking at Google and Yahoo! for a write up today on the future of the inbox. It's a good article, based mostly on words from Brad "Peanut Butter" Garlinghouse at Yahoo! …

View Wall Street Journal Online articles from Digg — The Wall Street Journal Online is adding Digg buttons across the entire site, and you'll now have full (free) access to the articles submitted to Digg. The Digg buttons have started appearing on WSJ.com articles tonight. — Digg on.

Automattic Founders To Take Big Money Off The Table — It didn't make a lot of sense when we heard that Automattic, the company that created the Wordpress.com blogging platform and oversees the Wordpress.org open source project, turned down a $200 million buyout offer.

Surprise: eSnips May Monetize Better Than Digg — Israeli digital crafts social network eSnips launched a new feature tonight that could change the social networking game. Called Social DNA, it's essentially a collection of personality quizzes that can serve to connect like minded users …

Oracle offers a peek at social apps and Fusion — Oracle showed how it is bringing a social dimension into its software and offered a peek at Fusion applications this afternoon at Oracle OpenWorld. It demonstrated that Oracle has fully grokked the concepts and technologies of Web 2.0 and that Fusion apps …

China Unicom also open to iPhone talks — China Unicom may be open to selling Apple's iPhone in China, giving Apple a second option for bringing its device to the world's most populous market. — China Unicom, the second largest mobile telecom network operator in China …

Google Redefines the Clickable AdSense Area — Similar to what Google has been doing with ads in search results, they also now restricted the clickable area in AdSense (the kind of Google ads webmasters can include on their pages). Instead of allowing a click to be triggered …

Going cold turkey off a handheld — perspective This column usually seeks to bring you up to date on cutting-edge issues where the law and technology intersect. But this week I need to write about a serious addiction. — Instead of alcohol or drugs, I want to focus on the far …

Why Mahalo is Fundamentally Flawed — Jason Calacanis has a new videoblog called Mahalo Daily. The show is starring Veronica Belmont. [I'm a big fan of Veronica (Hi Veronica!)] Unfortunately, I think Veronica will not be able to get much support for the show by working for Mahalo.

Senate helping make gov't more searchable — Let's say you're looking for some publicly available government information online. Maybe you're searching for property records or background on your local school district. Chances are, you'll start your quest not by typing in the URL …